HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – The body of a pastor in southern India was found hung from the thatched roof of his house early Saturday morning (Jan. 20), a week after he complained to police about opposition from Hindu extremists, sources said. Congregation members said they found the body of pastor Gideon Periyaswamy of Maknayeem Church […]
Pastor Found Dead in Tamil Nadu, India
Body appears to have been hung after death, church members say.
January 21, 2018 By -
Coptic Christian Slain in North Sinai, Egypt
Islamist militants spare his brother, Muslim friend.
January 16, 2018 By -
(Morning Star News) – A Coptic Christian killed by Islamic militants in Egypt’s northern Sinai was buried in his home village yesterday amid wailing and tears, religious rights activists said. Bassem Herz Attalhah, 27, was shot to death on a street in El Arish, capital of the North Sinai Governorate, on Saturday (Jan. 13) after […]
Pastors Draw Close to God as Tribal Churches Are Attacked in India
Indigenous leaders appear to join forces with Hindu nationalists to assault Christians.
January 15, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – When Hindu extremists in India told pastor Karma Oraon they would not stop beating him until he worshipped the monkey god, he felt Christ close to him, he said. “In those moments when they were kicking and beating me, I felt that even if I die now, the Lord will […]
Police, Hindu Extremists Halt Christmas Celebrations in Uttar Pradesh, India
Militant Hindu nationalists feel free to attack under BJP government.
January 8, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Summoned to a police station after Hindu extremists stopped his church’s worship last month, a pastor in northern India brought some 50 Christians with him to help plead for his rights. But 45-year-old pastor David Amarnath of Pathakpur village in Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh state, was taken aback by what […]
Christian Widow in Uganda Poisoned on Christmas Day
Muslim neighbor confesses.
January 4, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian mother of five in eastern Uganda was pleasantly surprised when two Muslim neighbors visited her on Christmas morning with gifts of sugar, salt, soap, matchboxes, groundnuts and cooking oil. Nafamba Bongo Madina, whose children range in age from 5 to 14, thanked Taaka Hajira and the other Muslim neighbor […]
Mother, Daughter in Nigeria Pressured to Convert to Islam, Accused of Kidnapping
Children threatened, forcefully taken from Christian.
January 2, 2018 By -
KANO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her adult daughter face kidnapping charges filed to pressure them into following the family patriarch’s conversion to Islam, sources said. Amina Isa, 40, of Kano state’s Gidan Kuran village in Tudun Wada Local Government Area, told Morning Star News that her husband left Christianity to obtain […]
At Least Nine People Killed in Attack on Coptic Church in Egypt
Congregation leaving worship service as gunman fired.
December 29, 2017 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – At least nine people were shot to death and several others wounded after gunmen attacked parishioners leaving a worship service this morning in a town south of Cairo, according to the Egyptian Interior Ministry. Eight of those killed were Christians, officials said. Some of those wounded were in critical condition […]
Christians in India Strive to Overcome Typical Entrapment Scheme
Hindu extremists increasingly trying to frame pastors.
December 26, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – After being framed on false charges earlier this year, two Christians in eastern India recently spent a month in jail, where inmates beat them after discovering they were accused of defiling Hinduism, sources said. Months after two Hindu extremists in Bihar state tried – and failed – to trap pastor […]
Hindu Extremists Block, Disrupt Large-Scale Prayer Service in India
In neighboring state, Christmas carolers arrested.
December 22, 2017 By -
DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in Chhattisgarh state this month kept hundreds of Christians from a prayer service and attacked those who managed to attend, and in neighboring Madhya Pradesh a frivolous accusation led to the arrest of Christmas carol singers, sources said. At a prayer service where 2,000 people were expected in Tarra […]
Police Complicit in Hindu Extremist Attack on Christians in Tamil Nadu, India, Sources Say
Hindu nationalist group denies working with police to stop Christianity.
December 19, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police arrested Christians who were attacked by Hindu nationalists in Tamil Nadu state, India, then tried to portray the incident as a fight between two parties, sources said. The Hindu extremists savagely beat four Christians, including a woman whose hand they fractured, for conducting a pre-Christmas charity event for destitute […]